Kirkman, Noreen Suzanne (2011) Mount Isa Mines' social infrastructure programs 1924-1963. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Kirkman, Noreen (1998) Mount Isa: oasis of the outback. James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia.

Kirkman, Noreen (1993) From minority to majority: Chinese on the Palmer River gold-field, 1873-1876. In: Reynolds, Henry, (ed.) Race Relations in North Queensland. James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia, pp. 243-257.

Kirkman, Noreen, and Kennedy, Kett H. (1992) The evolution of company welfare: practices at Mount Isa, Queensland. In: Tenfelde, Klaus, (ed.) Sozialgeschichte Des Bergbaus Im 19 Und 20 Jahrhundert: Towards a Social History of Mining in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Papers Presented to the International Mining History Congress Bochum, Federal Republic of Germany, September 3rd-7th, 1989. C.H. Beck, München, Germany, pp. 1155-1165.

Kirkman, Noreen (1987) Chinese miners on the Palmer. Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 13 (2). pp. 49-62.

Donovan, Peter, and Kirkman, Noreen (1986) The Unquenchable Flame: the South Australian Gas Company, 1861-1986. Wakefield Press, Adelaide, SA.

Kirkman, Noreen Suzanne (1984) The Palmer goldfield, 1873-1883. Honours thesis, James Cook University of North Queensland.

Kirkman, Noreen (1982) Mining on the Hodgkinson. In: Kennedy, K.H., (ed.) Readings in North Queensland Mining History. James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia, pp. 171-194.

Kirkman, Noreen (1980) The Palmer River Goldfield. In: Kennedy, K.H., (ed.) Readings in North Queensland Mining History. James Cook University, Townsville, pp. 113-144.

Kirkman, Noreen (1978) From minority to majority: an account of the Chinese influx to the Palmer River goldfield 1873-1876. In: Reynolds, Henry, (ed.) Race Relations in North Queensland. James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia, pp. 237-254.

Kirkman, Noreen (1978) "A Snider Is a Splendid Civilizer": European attitudes to aborigines on the Palmer. In: Reynolds, Henry, (ed.) Race Relations in North Queensland. James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia, pp. 119-143.